Organic Agriculture Worldwide: Current Statistics

1. Organic Agriculture Worldwide: Current Statistics Helga Willer, Research Institute ofOrganicAgriculture (FiBL), Frick, SwitzerlandBioFachCongress 2012, Nürnberg, Session «The World ofOrganicAgriculture» 15.2.2012

2. Acknowledgements International Trade Centre, Geneva The Swiss State SecretariatofEconomicAffairs SECO, Berne Nürnberg Messe, theorganizersoftheBioFach Organic Trade Fair This workwould not bepossiblewithoutthesupportofthe 200 expertswhocontributetothemakingof «The World ofOrganicAgriculture»

3. The World ofOrganicAgriculture 2011 and 2012www.organic-world.net

4. Key data/indicatorsrelatedtoareaandproducers 2010 • 160 countries havedata on organicagriculture. • 37 millionhectaresofagriculturallandareorganic (includingconversionareas). • 0.9 percentoftheagriculturallandisorganic, and 7 countries havemorethantenpercentorganicagriculturalland. • The organicagriculturallandremainedsteadycomparedwith2009. • Thereare 43 millionhectaresoffurther, non agriculturalareas (upfrom 41 millionhectares). • 1.6 millionproducerswerereported, morethanthreequartersare in developing countries.

5. FiBL-IFOAM-Survey: Numberof countries andterretoriescovered

6. Data collectionsystemsofareaandoperatordata Source: FiBL-IFOAM Survey 2012, based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

7. Organicagriculturallandandotherareas 2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM Survey 2012, based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

8. Distribution oforganicagriculturallandbyregion 2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM Survey 2012, based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

9. The ten countries withthemostorganicagriculturalland 2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM Survey 2012, based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

10. Shares oforganicagriculturalland in theregions 2010 (European Union: 5.1 %)

11. The countries withthehighestsharesoforganicagriculturalland 2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM Survey 2012, based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

12. Distribution oforganicshares 2010

13. Growth oftheorganicagriculturalland 1999-2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM-SOEL Surveys 2000-2012,based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

14. Development oforganicagriculturalland in theregions 1999-2010

15. Europe: Development oforganicagriculturalland 1985-2010

16. The ten countries withthelargestincreaseoforganicfarmland 2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM Survey 2012, based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

17. Further organicareas • Apart from the organic agricultural land there are further organic areas, the largest part of these are wild collection areas and areas for beekeeping. • Furthermore there are aquaculture, forest and grazing areas on non-agriculturalland. • It should be noted that many countries do not report these areas, as they only communicate the agricultural land. • The total for these areas was 43 million hectares, constituting an increase of 2 million hectares compared with 2009.

18. Organicagriculturallandandotherareas 2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM Survey 2012, based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

19. Growth oftheorganicagriculturallandandof wild collectionareas 1999-2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM-SOEL Surveys 2000-2012,based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

20. Wild collectionbycontinentandtheten countries withthelargest wild collectionareas 2010

21. Land use and keycrops 2010

22. Land use in organicagriculture 2010

23. Development oforganiclanduses

24. The ten countries withthemostorganicagriculturalland 2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM Survey 2012, based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

25. Useofarableland (total: 6.1 millionhectares)

26. Useof permanent cropland (total 2.7 millionhectares)

27. Organicproducers 2010 • For the current survey, a total of 1.6 million organic producers was reported. • According to the data obtained, more than three quarters of the producers are located in developing and transition countries. • The country with the most producers is India, followed by Uganda and Mexico. • It should be noted that not all certifiers reported the number of producers; their number is probably higher than 1.6 million. • Outlook 2011 data: At BioFach 2012 India announced that there are 1 million organic farmers in the country now – so globally there must be more then 2 million producers.

28. Distribution oforganicproducersbyregion 2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM Survey 2012, based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

29. The ten countries withthemostorganicproducers 2010 Source: FiBL-IFOAM Survey 2012, based on data from governments, the private sector and certifiers.

30. Organic farming in developing & transition countries and emerging markets 2010 • About one third of the world’s organic agricultural land – 12.5 million hectares - is located in developing/transition countries and in emerging markets.* Most of this land is in Latin American countries, with Asia and Africa in secondandthirdplace. • 1.3 million producers are in these countries. • *Countries listed in the List of Recipients of Official Development Assistance (ODA) of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The ist isavailableat • www.oecd.org/dataoecd/23/34/37954893.pdf.

31. Summary • The organic agricultural land area (37 million hectares in 2010) has remained stable between 2009 and 2010. • In Europe, however, organic farmland increased however by 9 percent. • Organic arable and permanent crops increased by six percent, for some crops growth rates were considerably higher. • 1.6 million organic producers were reported, most of these are in developing/transition and emergingmarket countries. • Developments in the year 2010 show that the institutional embedding of organic farming (with support of advice, research, marketing) is important in order to guarantee a constant development of the organic sector. • For more and more countries data on organic agriculture are available; but data collection and processing need to be improved in many countries, not only on land area and land use and crops grown and operators, but also on market and international trade data.